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Meinck, Sabine; Brese, Falk – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
This brief examines Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) science achievement of the 20% highest and the 20% lowest performing fourth and eighth graders in 11 countries. To do so, the authors compare achievement distributions across countries, using measures of relative equality within countries. Such an examination…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Science Achievement, Educational Policy, Grade 4
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Brandmayr, Michael – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
This paper outlines the methodological framework of a discourse study of the Austrian school system and presents findings on the question of what underlying meanings and ideologies are mediated by practices of self-regulated learning and how this contributes to the reproduction of neoliberal societies. In the first section I will discuss how…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies
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Erling, Elizabeth J.; Foltz, Anouschka; Wiener, Melanie – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
Educational research in Austria has demonstrated that early tracking into academic secondary schools and middle schools results in inequities for students with low socioeconomic status, from migration backgrounds and/or with German as an additional language. It has also found gaps in performance between students in the two school types, including…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Secondary School Teachers